Ricardo Bovendorp graduated in Ecology from the São Paulo State University and completed his Ph.D. study in Science (Applied Ecology) at ESALQ, University of São Paulo. He is now a Visiting Professor at the State University of Santa Cruz—UESC, hosted in the Applied Ecology & Conservation Lab—LEAC and Professor in the Ecology and Conservation of Biodiversity program (PPGECB), UESC. He is interested in understanding how human disturbances such as defaunation, forest fragmentation, and climate change affect the occurrence and distribution of mammalian species, as well as processes such as downsizing and rodentization.